Word: cut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cut off from his TV audience, Bakker relies on his Bible and his fan mail, the closest thing he has to a ministry. He says he has received more than 500 letters just from other ministers, as well as offers to serve as a pastor or appear on TV shows. "I've been invited to be a clergyman in, I think, half the world's religions...
...Bakker would have it, the coffers are nearly empty. There is no more maid service, and PTL is to cut off all money as of June. Even so, the house is still redolent of wealth: the shiny black Schaefer & Sons grand piano with a golden candelabrum on top, the Chinese porcelain tea service, the collection of figurines, the bodyguards and bustling assistants. If the Bakkers are running dry, it certainly doesn't show...
...each make harsh demands on a writer. For Novelist Paul Sheldon, Stephen King's protagonist, both are lumped together in Annie Wilkes, "a woman full of tornadoes waiting to happen." Trapped in Annie's house, Sheldon finds her a skilled practitioner with ax and carving knife who wants to cut his body as well as his prose. He is forced to write, just for her, another in his series featuring Misery Chastain, darling of supermarket bookracks. At first playing Scheherazade to her, he ends up playing Scheherazade to himself: he will not try to get away until he knows...
...truly special? Has its moist, chewy middle not induced them to brave city streets where people have been mugged for their sneakers and murdered for a leather jacket? Are the triple-braided loaves not caked with sesame seeds? Does the round loaf not have a crust you can cut your gums...
...difficult to discern why many contributors are becoming edgy about secretive and sensationalistic televangelism empires. Asks McKendree R. Langley in Eternity, a respected evangelical news monthly: "Wouldn't it be a step in the right direction for TV preachers to cut back on financial appeals, end outrageous claims of having direct pipelines to God, reaffirm by example the rightness of modest life-styles, demonstrate deeper biblical spirituality and articulate a Christian worldview?" That sound you hear is an army of embarrassed Christians shouting "Amen...